Author ORCID Identifier
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0466-3317
Date of Award
5-8-2020
Degree Type
Thesis
Degree Name
Master of Arts (MA)
Department
Anthropology
First Advisor
Dr. Louis A. Ruprecht
Second Advisor
Dr. Nicola Sharratt
Third Advisor
Dr. Faidra Papavasiliou
Abstract
In view of the Bicentenary of the Greek Revolution in 2021, I explore aspects of similarity and difference between Greece and the USA, by looking at how their Wars of Independence or Revolutions (1776-1781 and 1821-1830), respectively have been remembered and commemorated as well as mythologized as origin stories, in the context of national identity-formation, and as events in the framework of modern World History. Such concentration on national myths and commemorations will enable me to develop closer attention to the civil religion and nationalism in both contexts. I focus, in particular, on the Cosmogony of the two nations (Founders and Foundations), Manifest Destiny and the Megali Idea (Notions of Exceptional Chosenness and Expansionist Mission), as well as on National Days, Centennials and Bicentennials (Calendar and Ritual).
DOI
https://doi.org/10.57709/17609624
Recommended Citation
Androulakis, Emmanouil, "Sacred History, Sacred Time: A comparative cultural study of the commemoration of Independence Wars in Modern Greece and the USA." Thesis, Georgia State University, 2020.
doi: https://doi.org/10.57709/17609624
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